Phrasal Verbs

 

explanation : Chapter 5

 

 

Here below you will find a large blibliography of phrasal verb studies. You may consult the bibliography chronologically, alphabetically, or by examining the dictionaries which have been published over the years. I wouldn't dream of reading all these books, but the perception of phrasal verbs has changed over time and a brief look at the most intriguing titles can help us postulate the evolutionary direction of phrasal verb theory.

Introduction - Selected titles for an evolutionary hypothesis

A - Cronological Listing

B - Alphabetical Listing

C - Dictionaries: a chronological survey

 

 

Selected titles for an evolutionary hypothesis

My comments

Walker, William (1655), A Treatise of English Particles, London (Reprinted Menston, The Scholar Press, 1970)

Earliest study found. He knew "something was happening".

Willis, C.A. (1927), "Prepositional verbs", The English Journal 16

Straightforward title. Too bad it doesn't tell the whole story.

Kalepky, Th. (1929), "Präpositionsattraktionnen im Englischen", Zeitschrift für franz. u. engl. Unterricht 28, 173-9, 353-5

Yes! Verbs attract prepositions in English.

Mechner, M. (1956), Some Problems of Collocations of Verb and Particle in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language, M.A. thesis, University of London

Students of English as a Second Language (ESL) need help with phrasal verbs.

Sroka, Kazimierz (1962), "Critique of the traditional syntactic approach to adverb / preposition words in Modern English", Bulletin de la société polonaise de linguistique, 21

A purely syntactic approach is incomplete.

Hughes, M.N. (1966), "Phrasal and prepositional verbs", English Language Teaching Institute, London, Typescript

Traditional classification scheme.

Legum, St. E. (1968), "The verb-particle constructions in English: basic or derived?", in Darden-Bailey-Davison (eds.), Papers from the Fourth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, pp. 50-62, Chicago

Although composed of two or three words, phrasal verbs are basic verbs and irreducible in meaning.

Sroka, Kazimierz (1972), The Syntax of English Phrasal Verbs, The Hague, Mouton

Revised syntactic approach.

Declerck, Renaat (1977), "Some arguments in favor of a generative semantics analysis of sentences with an adverbial particle or a prepositional phrase of goal", Orbis 26, 297-340

Is this title grammatical? I think not. I do like the concept of "generative semantics analysis", though. I would say "semantic".

Brinton, Laurel J. (1981), Appendix: "Verb-particle combinations as aspectual periphrases", pp. 266-76, The Historical Development of Aspectual Periphrases in English, University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A., 3058 (doctoral dissertation)

Aspectual periphrases? Sounds wonderful. I imagine a fusion between direct and indirect speech, subjective and objective perception. Can this be?

Brinton L. J., (1988), "Verb Particles in English: Aspect or Aktionsart?", Studia Linguistica, 39, 157-168

The verb is no longer an action but an accomplishment.

Bacchielli, R. (1991), "A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles (The Winter’s Tale IV.III.26): Shakespeare’s language awareness and his ‘considered’ use of a peculiar lexical category", Early Modern English: Trends, Forms and Texts, Bari, Schena

Phrasal verbs have always been an integrated part of English. Shakespeare put them to use in his works.

Takami, K. (1992), Preposition Stranding. From Syntactic to Functional Analysis, The Hague, Mouton de Gruyter

If a purely syntactic approach is limited, what to use? A functional approach - what task does the phrasal verb accomplish?

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A - Cronological Listing

Bullokar, William (1586), Bref Grammar for English, ed. by J.R. Turner, The Works of William Bullokar, vol. II, Leeds

Walker, William (1655), A Treatise of English Particles, London (Reprinted Menston, The Scholar Press, 1970)

Miège, Guy (1688), The English Grammar, London

Maittaire, Michael (1712), The English Grammar, London

Sweet, Henry (1892), A New English Grammar, Oxford, The Clarendon Press

Onions C. T., (1904), An Advanced English Syntax, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company Ltd., London

Western, A. (1906), "Some remarks on the use of English adverbs", Englische Studien 36, 75-99, Whitehall, Harold

Dongen, W.A. van (1919), "He put on his hat and He put his hat on", Neophilologus: A Modern Language Quarterly 4:322-353, Groningen

Kennedy, A.G. (1920), The Modern English Verb-Adverb Combination, California, Stanford University Press (Reprinted by AMS Press, Inc., New York, 1967)

Bøgholm, Niels (1920), English Prepositions, Copenhagen

Fowler, H.W. (1923), "Preposition at end", Society for Pure English Tracts 14, 18-21

Smith, Logan P. (1925), Words and Idioms: Studies in the English Language, London (Reprinted 1943 and 1948)

Poutsma, Hendrik (1926), A Grammar of Late Modern English, Part II: The Parts of Speech, Section II: The Verb and the Particles, Groningen, P. Noordhoff

Volbeda, R. (1926), "On the place of prepositions", English Studies 8, 143-52, 169-81

Willis, C.A. (1927), "Prepositional verbs", The English Journal 16

Gaaf, W. van der (1929), "The conversion of the indirect personal object into the subject of a passive construction", English Studies 11: 1-11, 58-67

Kalepky, Th. (1929), "Präpositionsattraktionnen im Englischen", Zeitschrift für franz. u. engl. Unterricht 28, 173-9, 353-5

Gaaf, W.van der (1930), "The passive of a verb accompanied by a preposition", English Studies 12, 1-24

Owen, E.T. (1931), "Syntax of the adverb, preposition, and conjunction", Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 26, 167-221

Ordeman, D.Th. (1932), "Positions of adverbs", JEGP 31, 228-33

Roberts, M.H. (1936), "The antiquity of the Germanic Verb-adverb locution", JEGP 35, 466-81

Körner, R. (1944), "The prepositional passive formations", Mod. Spr. 43

Jespersen O., (1949), A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles, Munskgaard

Charnley, M.B. (1949), "The syntax of deferred prepositions", American Speech 24

Pence, R.W. (1949), "Up with which we can no longer put", Quarterly Journal of Speech 35

Mackin, Ronald (1950) [his collection of quotations eventually developed into The Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English]

Stevic, E.W. (1950), "The 'deferred preposition'", American Speech, 25, 211-14

Brøndal, V. (1950), Théorie des Prépositions, Copenhagen

Jowett, W.P. (1951), "On phrasal verbs", English Language Teaching 6

Prins, Anton A. (1952), French Influence in English Phrasing, Leiden, Universitaire Pers Leiden

Anthony, E.M. jr. (1954), Test Frames for Structures with "up" in Modern American Speech, University of Michigan dissertation (unpublished)

Anastasijeviç, K. (1954), Adverbial Modifiers UP, DOWN, IN, OUT, ON, OFF in Contemporary English, University of London, M.A. Thesis (in typescript)

Wood, F.T. (1955), "Verb-adverb combinations: the position of the adverb", English Language Teaching Vol.X, No. 1, 18-27

Mechner, M. (1956), Some Problems of Collocations of Verb and Particle in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language, M.A. thesis, University of London

Hornby, A.S. (1957), A Guide to Patterns and Usage in English, 2nd ed., London, Oxford University Press

Müller, Daniel (1957), Anticipatory Word-Order ­ Deferment of the Preposition, Winterthur

Mitchell, T.F. (1958), "Syntagmatic relations in linguistic analysis", Transactions of the Philological Society, pp. 101-18

Wood, F.T. (1958), "The place of the preposition with interrogative pronouns and adjectives", English Language Teaching, Vol.12, No.3, p.86

Dietrich, G. (1960), Adverb oder Präposition ? Zu einem klärungsbedürftigen Kapitel der englischen Grammatik, Halle

Marchand, H. (1960), The Categories and Types of Present-Day English Word-Formation. A Synchronic-Diachronic Approach, München, C.H.Beck (Reprinted 1969)

Taha, A.K. (1960), "The structure of two-word verbs in English", Language Learning 10, 115-122

Olsson, Yngve (1961), On the Syntax of the English Verb. With special reference to have a look and similar complex structures., Gothenburg Studies in English 12, Göteborg

Sroka, Kazimierz (1962), "Critique of the traditional syntactic approach to adverb / preposition words in Modern English", Bulletin de la société polonaise de linguistique, 21

Strang, B.M.H. (1962), Modern English Structure, London, Edward Arnold Ltd., 156-9

Brorström, S. (1963), The Increasing Frequency of the Preposition ABOUT During the Modern English Period, Stockholm

Bately, J.M. (1964), "Dryden’s revision in the Essay of Dramatic Poesy: the preposition at the end of the sentence and the expression of the relative", Review of English Studies XV, 60

Potter, S. (1964), "Prepositions which are really part of the verb", Praxis II. 4

Jacobson, S. (1964), Adverbial Positions in English, Stockholm

Fairclough N. L., (1965), Studies in the Collocation of Lexical Items with Prepositions and Adverbs in a Corpus of Spoken and Written English, University College of London (M.A. Thesis)

Fowler, H.W. (1965), Modern English Usage, rev. by Sir Ernest Gowers, Oxford, The Clarendon Press

Live, Anna H. (1965), "The discontinuous verb in English", WORD 21, 428-451

Palmer, F.R. (1965), A Linguistic Study of the English Verb, London, Longman

Potter, S. (1965), "English phrasal verbs", Philologica Pragensia 8, 285-289

Kiffer, T.E. (1965), A Diachronic and Synchronic Analysis and Description of English Phrasal Verbs, Diss. University of Pennsylvania

Hughes, M.N. (1966), "Phrasal and prepositional verbs", English Language Teaching Institute, London, Typescript

Mitchell, T.F. (1966), "Some English phrasal types", In Memory of J.F. Firth, London, 335-358

Spasov, D. (1966), English Phrasal Verbs, Sofia, Naouka i Izkoustvo

Gaist, J. & C.E. Nuttall (1968), Structures Used with Phrasal Verbs. English Language Units, Longman for the British Council

Legum, St. E. (1968), "The verb-particle constructions in English: basic or derived ?", in Darden-Bailey-Davison (eds.), Papers from the Fourth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, pp. 50-62, Chicago

Nickel, Gerhard (1968), "Complex verbal structures in English", International Review of Applied Linguistics 6:1-21

Zamudio, M. (1969), "On defining the phrasal verb: its grammatical structure and its recognition", Revista de Lingüistica Aplicada, Chile, Universidad de Concepciòn

Bolinger, Dwight (1971), The Phrasal Verb in English, Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press

Lipka, L. (1972), Semantic Structure and Word-Formation. Verb-Particle Constructions in Contemporary English, München, Fink

Makkai A., (1972), Idiom Structure in English, The Hague, Mouton

Sroka, Kazimierz (1972), The Syntax of English Phrasal Verbs, The Hague, Mouton

Quirk et al. (1972), A Grammar of Contemporary English, London, Longman

Live, Anna (1973), "The Take-Have phrasal in English", Linguistics 95. 31-50

Fraser B., (1974), The Verb-Particle Combination in English, New York, Academic Press

Fraser B., (1974), "Review of The Phrasal Verb in English by D. Bolinger", Language, 43, 937-947

Parisi, D. & A. Puglielli (1974), "Hopping adverbs", Atti del XI Congresso Internazionale di Linguistica

Cowie, A.P.& R. Mackin (1975), Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English, Vol.1 (a new edition was published in 1993 as Oxford Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs)

Leech, G. & Jan Svartvik (1975), A Communicative Grammar of English, London, Longman

Pelli, Mario G. (1976), Verb-Particle Constructions in American English. A Study Based on American Plays from the End of the 18th Century to the Present, Bern und München, Franke Verlag

Declerck, Renaat (1977), "Some arguments in favor of a generative semantics analysis of sentences with an adverbial particle or a prepositional phrase of goal", Orbis 26, 297-340

Koskenniemi, Inna (1977), "On the use of verbal phrases of the type ‘to take revenge’ in English Renaissance drama", Poetica 7:80-90

Vestergaard, T. (1977), "Prepositional phrases and prepositional verbs, A study in grammatical function", Janua Linguarum, series minor 161, The Hague, Mouton de Gruyter

Hecková, A. et al. (1978), "Phrasal verbs in scientific English", E.T. Forum, vol.XVI, No. 2, 37-38

Couper-Kuhlen, E. (1979), The Prepositional Passive in English. A Semantic-Syntactic Analysis, with a Lexicon of Prepositional Verbs, Tübingen, Niemeyer

Swan, Michael (1980), Practical English Usage, Oxford, Oxford University Press (2nd ed. 1995, 7th impression 1998)

Brinton, Laurel J. (1981), Appendix: "Verb-particle combinations as aspectual periphrases", pp. 266-76, The Historical Development of Aspectual Periphrases in English, University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A., 3058 (doctoral dissertation)

Hook, J.N. (1981), Two-Word Verbs in English, New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Aarts, J. & F. (1982), English Syntactic Structure, The Pergamon Press

Dalle, T.S. (1983), Phrasal Verbs: the Effectiveness of Current Grammatical Theory in Applied ESL and Some Pedagogical Implications, The University of Arizona

Murphy, M.J. (1983), Understanding Phrasal Verbs, Hulton Educational Supplement, Jan. 15

Hiltunen, Risto (1983), "Phrasal verbs in English grammar books before 1800", Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 3, LXXXIV, 375-386, 1983

Cowie A. P. - Mackin R., (1985), Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English, Oxford University Press

Maling, J. & A. Zaenen (1985), "Preposition stranding and passive", Nordic Journal of Linguistics 8, 197-209

Quirk R. - Greenbaum S. - Leech G. - Svartik J., (1985), A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, Longman

Shovel, M. (1985), Making Sense of Phrasal Verbs, Eastbourne, Cassell

Bacchielli, Rolando (1986), Termini frasali inglesi, Urbino, QuattroVenti

Ping, Chen (1986), "Discourse and particle movement in English", Studies in Language, vol.10. Amsterdam, J. Benjamins

Hornby, A.S. (1987), Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary of Current English, Oxford University Press

Wright, T. (1987), "Survey review: books on phrasal verbs", English Language Teaching Journal, Vol. 41/3, July 1987

Brinton, Laurel J. (1988), The Development of English Aspectual Systems. Aspectualizers and Post-Verbal Particles, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

Brinton L. J., (1988), "Verb Particles in English: Aspect or Aktionsart?", Studia Linguistica, 39, 157-168

Gilman, Charlotte (1988), On Stage with English: Spotlighting Two-Word Verb Idioms, London, Macmillan

Seidl J. - McMordie W., (1988), English Idioms, Oxford University Press

McArthur, Tom (1989), "The long-neglected phrasal verb", English Today 18, April 1989, 38-44

McPartland-Fairman, Pamela (1989), The Processing of Phrasal Verbs by Native and Non-Native Speakers of English, UMI

Diensberg, B. (1990), "English phrasal verbs expressing aspect and aktionsart", Folia Linguistica Historica 11, 1-2, 187-197

Bacchielli, R. (1991), "A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles (The Winter’s Tale IV.III.26): Shakespeare’s language awareness and his ‘considered’ use of a peculiar lexical category", Early Modern English: Trends, Forms and Texts, Bari, Schena

Britten, Donald & Gwendolyn Dellar (1991), Using Phrasal Verbs: A Complete Course in the English Phrasal Verb System, 2nd ed., New York, Prentice Hall

Dainty, Peter (1991), Phrasal Verbs in Context, London, Macmillan

Stein, Gabriele (1991), "The phrasal verb type to have a look in Modern English", International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 19, 1-29

Azzaro, Gabriele (1992), "Semantic syntax: English phrasal verbs", Textus 5, 83-110

Dikken, Marcel den (1992), Particles, HIL diss. 4, Leiden

Takami, K. (1992), Preposition Stranding. From Syntactic to Functional Analysis, The Hague, Mouton de Gruyter

Woolard, George (1992), "Phrasal verbs through jokes", Modern English Teacher, vol.1, no.1, p.12

Berman Louis A. - Kirstein Laurette, (1993), Practical Idioms Using Phrasal Verbs In Everyday Contexts, National Textbook Company

Cowie, A. (1993), "Getting to grips with phrasal verbs", English Today 36, October 1993, 38-41

Dixson Robert J., (1994), Essential Idioms in English, Prentice Hall Regents

Watson, George G. (1994), "Place and movement. An approach to phrasal verbs", LEND ­ Lingua e nuova didattica, 2 Sett. 1994, pp. 21-38

Dikken, Marcel den (1995), Particles: on the Syntax of Verb-Particle, Triadic, and Causative Constructions, Oxford, Oxford University Press

Giansiracusa, Mauro, (1995), Learning Three-Word Verbs. Proposta di courseware sui verbi frasali, Multimedia e didattica linguistica Una prospettiva semiotica, L'epos

Pye, Glennis et al. (1997), Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

Allen, R.E. (1998), "Fine but not definitive" (a review of Glennis Pye et al., Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs, Cambridge University Press, 1997), English Today 55, July 1998, 57-59

Lindstromberg, Seth (1998), English Prepositions Explained, Amsterdam, John Benjamins

O’Dowd, E.M. (1998), Prepositions and Particles in English. A Discourse-Functional Account, Oxford, Oxford University Press

Brinton, Laurel J. & Minoji Akimoto, eds. (1999), Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Composite Predicates in the History of English, Amsterdam, Benjamins

Hiltunen, Risto (1999), "Verbal phrases and phrasal verbs in Early Modern English", in Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Composite Predicates in the History of English, ed. by L.J. Brinton & M. Akimoto, Amsterdam, Benjamins, pp. 133-165

Collins Cobuild, (2001), English Dictionary for Advanced Learners, Harper Collins

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B - Alphabetical Listing

Aarts, J. & F. (1982), English Syntactic Structure, The Pergamon Press

Allen, R.E. (1998), "Fine but not definitive" (a review of Glennis Pye et al., Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs, Cambridge University Press, 1997), English Today 55, July 1998, 57-59

Anastasijeviç, K. (1954), Adverbial Modifiers UP, DOWN, IN, OUT, ON, OFF in Contemporary English, University of London, M.A. Thesis (in typescript)

Anthony, E.M. jr. (1954), Test Frames for Structures with "up" in Modern American Speech, University of Michigan dissertation (unpublished)

Azzaro, Gabriele (1992), "Semantic syntax: English phrasal verbs", Textus 5, 83-110

Bacchielli, R. (1991), "A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles (The Winter’s Tale IV.III.26): Shakespeare’s language awareness and his ‘considered’ use of a peculiar lexical category", Early Modern English: Trends, Forms and Texts, Bari, Schena

Bacchielli, Rolando (1986), Termini frasali inglesi, Urbino, QuattroVenti

Bately, J.M. (1964), "Dryden’s revision in the Essay of Dramatic Poesy: the preposition at the end of the sentence and the expression of the relative", Review of English Studies XV, 60

Berman Louis A. - Kirstein Laurette, (1993), Practical Idioms Using Phrasal Verbs In Everyday Contexts, National Textbook Company

Bøgholm, Niels (1920), English Prepositions, Copenhagen

Bolinger, Dwight (1971), The Phrasal Verb in English, Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press

Brinton L. J., (1988), "Verb Particles in English: Aspect or Aktionsart?", Studia Linguistica, 39, 157-168

Brinton, Laurel J. & Minoji Akimoto, eds. (1999), Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Composite Predicates in the History of English, Amsterdam, Benjamins

Brinton, Laurel J. (1981), Appendix: "Verb-particle combinations as aspectual periphrases", pp. 266-76, The Historical Development of Aspectual Periphrases in English, University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A., 3058 (doctoral dissertation)

Brinton, Laurel J. (1988), The Development of English Aspectual Systems. Aspectualizers and Post-Verbal Particles, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

Britten, Donald & Gwendolyn Dellar (1991), Using Phrasal Verbs: A Complete Course in the English Phrasal Verb System, 2nd ed., New York, Prentice Hall

Brøndal, V. (1950), Théorie des Prépositions, Copenhagen

Brorström, S. (1963), The Increasing Frequency of the Preposition ABOUT During the Modern English Period, Stockholm

Bullokar, William (1586), Bref Grammar for English, ed. by J.R. Turner, The Works of William Bullokar, vol. II, Leeds

Charnley, M.B. (1949), "The syntax of deferred prepositions", American Speech 24

Collins Cobuild, (2001), English Dictionary for Advanced Learners, Harper Collins

Couper-Kuhlen, E. (1979), The Prepositional Passive in English. A Semantic-Syntactic Analysis, with a Lexicon of Prepositional Verbs, Tübingen, Niemeyer

Cowie A. P. - Mackin R., (1985), Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English, Oxford University Press

Cowie, A. (1993), "Getting to grips with phrasal verbs", English Today 36, October 1993, 38-41

Cowie, A.P.& R. Mackin (1975), Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English, Vol.1 (a new edition was published in 1993 as Oxford Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs)

Dainty, Peter (1991), Phrasal Verbs in Context, London, Macmillan

Dalle, T.S. (1983), Phrasal Verbs: the Effectiveness of Current Grammatical Theory in Applied ESL and Some Pedagogical Implications, The University of Arizona

Declerck, Renaat (1977), "Some arguments in favor of a generative semantics analysis of sentences with an adverbial particle or a prepositional phrase of goal", Orbis 26, 297-340

Diensberg, B. (1990), "English phrasal verbs expressing aspect and aktionsart", Folia Linguistica Historica 11, 1-2, 187-197

Dietrich, G. (1960), Adverb oder Präposition ? Zu einem klärungsbedürftigen Kapitel der englischen Grammatik, Halle

Dikken, Marcel den (1992), Particles, HIL diss. 4, Leiden

Dikken, Marcel den (1995), Particles: on the Syntax of Verb-Particle, Triadic, and Causative Constructions, Oxford, Oxford University Press

Dixson Robert J., (1994), Essential Idioms in English, Prentice Hall Regents

Dongen, W.A. van (1919), "He put on his hat and He put his hat on", Neophilologus: A Modern Language Quarterly 4:322-353, Groningen

Fairclough N. L., (1965), Studies in the Collocation of Lexical Items with Prepositions and Adverbs in a Corpus of Spoken and Written English, University College of London (M.A. Thesis)

Fowler, H.W. (1923), "Preposition at end", Society for Pure English Tracts 14, 18-21

Fowler, H.W. (1965), Modern English Usage, rev. by Sir Ernest Gowers, Oxford, The Clarendon Press

Fraser B., (1974), "Review of The Phrasal Verb in English by D. Bolinger", Language, 43, 937-947

Fraser B., (1974), The Verb-Particle Combination in English, New York, Academic Press Gaaf, W. van der (1929), "The conversion of the indirect personal object into the subject of a passive construction", English Studies 11: 1-11, 58-67

Gaaf, W.van der (1930), "The passive of a verb accompanied by a preposition", English Studies 12, 1-24

Gaist, J. & C.E. Nuttall (1968), Structures Used with Phrasal Verbs. English Language Units, Longman for the British Council

Giansiracusa, Mauro, (1995), Learning Three-Word Verbs. Proposta di courseware sui verbi frasali, Multimedia e didattica linguistica Una prospettiva semiotica, L'epos

Gilman, Charlotte (1988), On Stage with English: Spotlighting Two-Word Verb Idioms, London, Macmillan

Hecková, A. et al. (1978), "Phrasal verbs in scientific English", E.T. Forum, vol.XVI, No. 2, 37-38

Hiltunen, Risto (1983), "Phrasal verbs in English grammar books before 1800", Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 3, LXXXIV, 375-386, 1983

Hiltunen, Risto (1999), "Verbal phrases and phrasal verbs in Early Modern English", in Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Composite Predicates in the History of English, ed. by L.J. Brinton & M. Akimoto, Amsterdam, Benjamins, pp. 133-165

Hook, J.N. (1981), Two-Word Verbs in English, New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Hornby, A.S. (1957), A Guide to Patterns and Usage in English, 2nd ed., London, Oxford Universitry Press

Hornby, A.S. (1987), Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary of Current English, Oxford University Press
Press

Hughes, M.N. (1966), "Phrasal and prepositional verbs", English Language Teaching Institute, London, Typescript

Jacobson, S. (1964), Adverbial Positions in English, Stockholm

Jespersen O., (1949), A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles, Munskgaard

Jowett, W.P. (1951), "On phrasal verbs", English Language Teaching 6

Kalepky, Th. (1929), "Präpositionsattraktionnen im Englischen", Zeitschrift für franz. u. engl. Unterricht 28, 173-9, 353-5

Kennedy, A.G. (1920), The Modern English Verb-Adverb Combination, California, Stanford University Press (Reprinted by AMS Press, Inc., New York, 1967)

Kiffer, T.E. (1965), A Diachronic and Synchronic Analysis and Description of English Phrasal Verbs, Diss. University of Pennsylvania

Körner, R. (1944), "The prepositional passive formations", Mod. Spr. 43

Koskenniemi, Inna (1977), "On the use of verbal phrases of the type ‘to take revenge’ in English Renaissance drama", Poetica 7:80-90

Leech, G. & Jan Svartvik (1975), A Communicative Grammar of English, London, Longman

Legum, St. E. (1968), "The verb-particle constructions in English: basic or derived ?", in Darden-Bailey-Davison (eds.), Papers from the Fourth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, pp. 50-62, Chicago

Lindstromberg, Seth (1998), English Prepositions Explained, Amsterdam, John Benjamins

Lipka, L. (1972), Semantic Structure and Word-Formation. Verb-Particle Constructions in Contemporary English, München, Fink

Live, Anna (1973), "The Take-Have phrasal in English", Linguistics 95. 31-50

Live, Anna H. (1965), "The discontinuous verb in English", WORD 21, 428-451

Mackin, Ronald (1950) [his collection of quotations eventually developed into The Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English]

Maittaire, Michael (1712), The English Grammar, London

Makkai A., (1972), Idiom Structure in English, The Hague, Mouton

Maling, J. & A. Zaenen (1985), "Preposition stranding and passive", Nordic Journal of Linguistics 8, 197-209

Marchand, H. (1960), The Categories and Types of Present-Day English Word-Formation. A Synchronic-Diachronic Approach, München, C.H.Beck (Reprinted 1969)

McArthur, Tom (1989), "The long-neglected phrasal verb", English Today 18, April 1989, 38-44

McPartland-Fairman, Pamela (1989), The Processing of Phrasal Verbs by Native and Non-Native Speakers of English, UMI

Mechner, M. (1956), Some Problems of Collocations of Verb and Particle in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language, M.A. thesis, University of London

Miège, Guy (1688), The English Grammar, London

Mitchell, T.F. (1958), "Syntagmatic relations in linguistic analysis", Transactions of the Philological Society, pp. 101-18

Mitchell, T.F. (1966), "Some English phrasal types", In Memory of J.F. Firth, London, 335-358

Müller, Daniel (1957), Anticipatory Word-Order ­ Deferment of the Preposition, Winterthur

Murphy, M.J. (1983), Understanding Phrasal Verbs, Hulton Educational Supplement, Jan. 15

Nickel, Gerhard (1968), "Complex verbal structures in English", International Review of Applied Linguistics 6:1-21

O’Dowd, E.M. (1998), Prepositions and Particles in English. A Discourse-Functional Account, Oxford, Oxford University Press

Olsson, Yngve (1961), On the Syntax of the English Verb. With special reference to have a look and similar complex structures., Gothenburg Studies in English 12, Göteborg

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C- Dictionaries: a chronological survey

Henderson, B.L.K. & G.O.E. Henderson (1937), A Dictionary of English Idioms, 2 vols., London, James Blackwood & Co.Ltd. (reprinted 1954, 1956, 1962)

Jespersen O., (1949), A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles, Munskgaard

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Heaton, J.B. (1965), Prepositions and Adverbial Particles, London, Longmans

Hill, L.A. (1968), Prepositions and Adverbial Particles, Oxford, Oxford University Press

Mortimer, Colin (1972), Phrasal Verbs in Conversation, London, Longman

McArthur, Tom & Beryl Atkins (1974), Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs and Their Idioms, London, Collins

Cowie, A.P.& R. Mackin (1975), Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English, Vol.1 (a new edition was published in 1993 as Oxford Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs)

Meyer, G.A. (1975), The Two-Word Verb. A Dictionary of the Verb-Preposition Phrases in American English, The Hague, Mouton

Spasov, D.I. (1977/78), English Phrasal Verbs, 2nd ed. enlarged and revised, Sofia, Narodna Prosveta, State Publishing House, Vol.1-1977, Vol.2-1978

Davidson, George W. (1982), Chambers Phrasal Verbs, Edimburgh, Chambers

Xu, Liejiong (1982), Dictionary of English Phrasal Verbs, co-editor, Shanghai, Yiwen Press

Courtney, Rosemary (1983), Longman Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs, London, Longman

Cowie A. P. - Mackin R., (1985), Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English, Oxford University Press

Turton, Nigel D. & Martin H. Manser (1985), The Student’s Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs, London, Macmillan

Hornby, A.S. (1987), Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary of Current English, Oxford University Press

Seidl J. - McMordie W., (1988), English Idioms, Oxford University Press

Sinclair, John et al. (1989), COBUILD Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs, Edimburgh, HarperCollins

Spears, Richard A. (1993), NTC’s Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs and Other Idiomatic Verbal Phrases, Lincolnwood, Illinois, National Textbook Company XVII

Cullen, K. & H. Sargeant (1996), Chambers Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs, Edimburgh, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd.

Pye, Glennis et al. (1997), Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

Collins Cobuild, (2001), English Dictionary for Advanced Learners, Harper Collins

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